ark and rar

[Neal Becker]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:52 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> > In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9
>> > it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the
>> > unrar package. Am I missing something?
>> 
>> .rar (or at least the most popular and current version of rar) is
>> proprietary technology and non-free.  It cannot be shipped in Fedora.
> 
> I repeat: I installed the unrar package (from Livna as it happens). Ark
> used to work with .rar files on F8 and now it doesn't. I'm assuming that
> Ark used the unrar package but of course maybe it used to have its own
> internal implementation and this has now been withdrawn because of
> licensing, I don't know.
> 
> The only thing I ever used Ark for was .rar as I can handle tar, tgz,
> zip, gzip, bzip etc. on my own.
> 
> poc
> 

You can install unrar and handle it on your own, right?